As shocking and appalling as this is, let's just remember that far from being an isolated incident, or something that is a cultural issue (even though, yes, there are definitely religious, regional, cultural, and ancient moral systems at play here), that there is a connection to attitudes in our own culture that reinforce the belief that women are responsible for what men do when we get aroused (or even act violent).

I get afraid that many men would read about this case and say "that's appalling" (and they'd be right) without necessarily drawing the connection between the religiously-rooted, archiac condemnation of Saudi women and their own support of American attitudes that reinforce the concept that women "deserve" to have certain things done to them or "asked for it" by virtue of having worn something/said something/drank something/or walked somewhere, etc.

A good article to post, and definitely fodder for a larger conversation about consent, victim-blaming, and cross-cultural attitudes about sex, gender, and sexuality.